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GUrban - Modernist Fiction: V. Woolf and J. Joyce - The Common Reader
by GUrban - (2012-01-11)
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-What is missing in conventional novels?

Conventional novels miss in achieving the thing that people seek. These have a design and two or thirdy chapters. The writer seems constrained by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant that provides to give a plot, comedy, tragedy, love interests.

-How does Virginia Woolf describe life?

Virginia Woolf describes life like a thing has moved off and refuses to contain clothes as people provides. Life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding people from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

-What does Virginia Woolf mean by “the life of Monday of Tuesday”?

She indicates the flow of the time and the things that it has inside and she underlines the difference of personal facts and how happen in external world.

-What is the task of the novelist and how should fiction be written?

The writer must be a free man and he must write what he wants according to his emotions. Fiction shouldn’t have conventions. The task of the novelist is to convey things as little mixture of the alien and external ones.

-Can you see any similarity between Woolf’s ideas about fiction and Monet’s Impressionist painting?

The similarity between Woolf and Monet is that they share the idea to express their feelings and impressions without conventions, free